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tomorrow we preview president obama's state of the union. i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service®, works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com®, you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small.
tomorrow we preview president obama's state of the union. i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service®, works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com®, you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small.
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president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on wall street and say it's still too much. >> well i don't think that compensation was the purview of tim. you could argue about compensation one way or another and argue what role it played. that's an issue that the policy community is going to have to deal with going forward. but, it wasn't central to what he had to do. >> do you think compensation played a role? obviously the other critique on you has been that you were paid a huge amount of money, $100 million plus. no one's ever asked me and i was wondering if i could, did you get to keep all that money? a lot of it was in stock.
president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on...
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. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to collaborate with physicians, to drive increases in health quality. today we have over 50 collaboratives already up and running in the united states where physicians are more paid based on the quality of outcomes haves the quality of services. as a result, people are getting better quality of outcomes, better services and costs are coming out of the system. >> david, give us a -- your outlook for the year ahead and a little bit beyond that. to what extent, when washington is -- it's in the middle right now of the process of trying to find cost savings. do you expect some of those cost saving
. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to...
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>> apoplectic. >> of the impact of obama-care on the job creation in this country. i'm not judging whether or not you're right or wrong but there's a sense out there. >> to seen see small companies -- >> to raise the cost of what it is to hire an employee, you will hire less of them. >> you are seeing small companies starting to talk about, i have 100 employees, do i break up into three llcs. you are going to have to deal with that sort of thing. that is going to happen and there are people that will be upset about know it. >> the other thing that makes people apoplectic, you kcan cac about health care and spending decelerating. the bottom line was about cost containment. it really wasn't, about coverage. when you look at the amount of me on the government will spend on health care the next ten years, it is higher on obama-care than otherwise. the cost of spending will go up. >> the cost of spending for the government. >> that was the mission. >> i apologize. i have breaking news with government spending. the post office. this is breaking news. the post office says
>> apoplectic. >> of the impact of obama-care on the job creation in this country. i'm not judging whether or not you're right or wrong but there's a sense out there. >> to seen see small companies -- >> to raise the cost of what it is to hire an employee, you will hire less of them. >> you are seeing small companies starting to talk about, i have 100 employees, do i break up into three llcs. you are going to have to deal with that sort of thing. that is going to...
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he's never going to leave barack obama very far. we talked to him about the state of the union, about its impact on some of the fights like the budget sequester. he said he's not sure that the sequester is going to happen or not, whether they're going to make a deal, but this is the single biggest opportunity he's got to make his case on why we need revenues as well as spending cuts. here is david axelrod on the significance of the state of the union to that effort. >> we have a standoff on these issues. this is the largest audience he's going to have. the goal is to move public opinion because that's what moves congress. i think some of the reasons we now see some moment on issues like immigration reform, for example, has to do less with what the president said and more with what the american people have said. >> i also talked to david about the attitude the president has shown since the election. he certainly had a little bit more spring in his step. some people say he's been cocky since that election, throwing a couple of elbows
he's never going to leave barack obama very far. we talked to him about the state of the union, about its impact on some of the fights like the budget sequester. he said he's not sure that the sequester is going to happen or not, whether they're going to make a deal, but this is the single biggest opportunity he's got to make his case on why we need revenues as well as spending cuts. here is david axelrod on the significance of the state of the union to that effort. >> we have a standoff...
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austin didn't mention the obama-care tax or payroll tax or any of that. those are all headwinds, too. >> listen, i think the impasse in washington is just crazy right now. i am absolutely for not having the sequestration. it's just too blunt of an object. >> but the two sides have not been able to -- >> zero. >> no common room -- common ground. >> if you could cut 85 you wanted to cut? >> in a nanosecond. >> do you have 85 you want to cut? >> do i know it off the top of my head. i think you need to still hit the revenue side. you need revenues and spending to be that fly% differential, you have to get there. you need revenues up by 18%. >> do you get that growing or additional taxes? >> i don't want to use the word taxes and i'm not trying to -- i don't think we're talking about tax rates here. there are certainly revenue loopholes we could be closing. >> we're supposed to close those to lower marginal rates. >> but we didn't. >> simpson-bowles we were lowering marginal rates and closing loopholes. now, we raise annual rates and you close loopholes. >> it
austin didn't mention the obama-care tax or payroll tax or any of that. those are all headwinds, too. >> listen, i think the impasse in washington is just crazy right now. i am absolutely for not having the sequestration. it's just too blunt of an object. >> but the two sides have not been able to -- >> zero. >> no common room -- common ground. >> if you could cut 85 you wanted to cut? >> in a nanosecond. >> do you have 85 you want to cut? >> do i...
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president obama urging compromise in congress as the deadline for the sequestration looms. meantime, global markets dealing with the uncertainty in europe. former treasury secretary larry summers. good morning, larry. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk sequester first. we can get to italy, but when you think about what's going to happen at the end of the this week, the assumption in the markets is that we're going over. if you listen to the folks in washington, the world is going to come to an end. if you listen to the folks on wall street, it's no big deal. who is right? >> look, the world will still keep turning. but this is a self-inflicted wound from which we have nothing to gain. hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost if this plays out over a long time period. the most powerful country in the world is canceling military deployment, that its leading military figures think are essential, not because of any fundamental problem, but because of a political squabble. that is not how the greatest country in the world should be governing itself. this should be brought t
president obama urging compromise in congress as the deadline for the sequestration looms. meantime, global markets dealing with the uncertainty in europe. former treasury secretary larry summers. good morning, larry. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk sequester first. we can get to italy, but when you think about what's going to happen at the end of the this week, the assumption in the markets is that we're going over. if you listen to the folks in washington, the world is going...
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says, if we follow president obama's plan, the u.s. in 25 years will be in worse shape than greece is today. >> by the way, stan druckenmiller, he is going to become more publicly vocal. >> is he? >> yes, he is. because he feels strongly that this is just a rape of unborn children. it's -- it's generational theft on an enormous magnitude. i frequently, if i have to give a talk, i ask people, particularly if they're older like i am, i say to them if you had one meal left, and you had your grandchild with you, would you eat it or would you give it to your grandchild? they all say, i'll give it to my grandchild. guess what? they're eating their grandchildren's breakfast, lunch and dinner right now, and they haven't been born yet. this is going to happen. >> right. >> these are -- >> i think these are absolutely great points. i mean, our prior perspective on this has been the periods in when you get big bull markets on stocks, when p/e multiples go to 20, the '50s '80s and nineties, those occurred with stable monetary policy, government sp
says, if we follow president obama's plan, the u.s. in 25 years will be in worse shape than greece is today. >> by the way, stan druckenmiller, he is going to become more publicly vocal. >> is he? >> yes, he is. because he feels strongly that this is just a rape of unborn children. it's -- it's generational theft on an enormous magnitude. i frequently, if i have to give a talk, i ask people, particularly if they're older like i am, i say to them if you had one meal left, and...